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The discovery came as Syrian government forces were being accused of continuing to bombard insurgent-held areas with chlorine bombs.
The social network will host articles directly on its site instead of linking to them, potentially undermining news sites and apps.
The Amtrak train that derailed in Philadelphia on Tuesday night was traveling at a speed twice the speed limit on that stretch of track, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The supply of certain paintings is fixed, but the number of people with the riches to buy top-end art is rising.
With three restaurants in New York, David Schillace and Thomas Kelly plan to open two more each year, taking some cues from Shake Shack and Chipotle.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 2015, covering May 13, 2015.
Zac Brown Band
Josh Groban
Soundtrack
Tyler Farr
Drake
2015Earl Averill, Jr., American baseball player (born 1931)[†]
Earl Douglas Averill was an American professional baseball player who was a catcher and outfielder in the Major Leagues in 1956 and from 1958 to 1963 for the Cleveland Indians, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Philadelphia Phillies. He was commonly called Earl Averill Jr. to distinguish him from his father, Howard Earl Averill, who was a Hall of Fame baseball player in his own right.
2015Robert Drasnin, American clarinet player and composer (born 1927)[†]
Robert Jackson Drasnin was an American composer and clarinet player.
2015Nina Otkalenko, Russian runner (born 1928)[†]
Nina Grigoryevna Otkalenko was a Soviet middle-distance runner. She won a European title in the 800 m at the inaugural 1954 European Athletics Championships and set multiple world records in this event in 1951–54. She missed the 1952 and 1956 Olympics, where women's middle-distance events were not part of the program, and the 1960 Olympics due to an injury.
2015David Sackett, American-Canadian physician and academic (born 1934)[†]
David Lawrence Sackett was an American-Canadian physician and a pioneer in evidence-based medicine. He is known as one of the fathers of Evidence-Based Medicine. He founded the first department of clinical epidemiology in Canada at McMaster University, and the Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine. He is well known for his textbooks Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine.
2015Gainan Saidkhuzhin, Russian cyclist (born 1937)[†]
Gainan Rakhmatovich Saidkhuzhin was a Russian Tatar cyclist and ten-time cycling champion of the Soviet Union. He competed in the road race at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and finished in 34th and 41st places, respectively. In 1964 he also finished fifth in the 100 km team time trial.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]